Thursday 18 July 2024
Sofitel Sydney Wentworth
2024 ACOMM Award Winners – Congratulations!
2024 Communications Ambassador
Matthew Enger has been named the Australian Communications Ambassador for 2024.
Matthew is the Managing Director of Leap Telecommunications (Leaptel), responsible for overseeing all areas of the organisation. In this role, he has responsibility for the company’s ongoing results including ensuring the quality of internet service is second-to-none.
Matt has many years of business leadership, networking engineering, legal compliance and extensive customer care experience through a variety of roles and business ventures. From his initial groundings as an internet enthusiast at high school to his successful career as an IT expert and network engineer, Matt’s experience and business knowledge ensure he is a highly-skilled leader.
Currently, Matt is the Chairman of the IAA Board since 2020 and is also the IAA representative for the NZIX Committee.
Innovation – Large Company
Vocus • Darwin-Jakarta-Singapore-Cable
As Australia continues to grow and evolve in an increasingly interconnected world, long-haul fibre networks will play an increasingly critical role in shaping its future and Vocus’ purpose-built network is ready and evolving to serve as a catalyst for innovation, productivity, and competitiveness across industries
Innovation – SME
Speedcast • Speedcast SIGMA™
Speedcast SIGMA™ is an intelligent network management platform integrating multiple connectivity paths into a single, secure service, monitoring and selecting the right connectivity option to maintain application performance and deliver the highest availability. It enables integration of global VSAT, cellular 4G/5G satellite backhaul, L-band and non-GEO satellite services.
Vendor Innovation
Ericsson Australia • Ericsson’s Cloud RAN, 5G Network Slicing and 5G Uplink innovations with Telstra
Since the inception of 3G in Australia, Ericsson’s and Telstra’s enduring partnership has resulted in 53 World-First milestones. Innovation persisted through 2023 and 2024, enabling Ericsson to deploy several world-first and Australian-first advancements in Cloud RAN, Network Slicing, and Uplink Carrier Aggregation within Telstra’s commercial network.
Nokia Solutions & Networks • Optical Sensing of fibre networks
Harness high performance sensing of your optical network with PSE-6. Nokia’s Photonic Service Engine 6 (PSE-6) enables the transport of 1.2T per channel or 76.8T* of capacity on a single fibre pair, critical in fulfilling the new capacity requirements between data centres, driven by AI based applications, IT digital transformation and 5G/5G Advanced mobility.
Cyber Security & Online Safety Innovation
Optus • Call Stop and Text Stop
Optus’ Call Stop and Text Stop is believed to be a world-first approach to fighting Callback Scams, protecting customers on the Optus network from calling verified scam numbers that impersonate financial institutions.
Text Stop prevents SMS with identified Scam URLs being received. Call Stop may have prevented an estimated $49 million from being lost to scammers.
Commitment to Customer Service
Aussie Broadband • The Actual Aussie Way
Customer service is at the heart of everything we do, and our team is crucial to providing a good customer experience. We’re focused on retaining and strengthening our family-feel culture.
Services to Industry – Professional Services
King & Wood Mallesons • Legal
KWM has a leading team of telecommunications specialists inAustralia and the Asia-Pacific region who support clients every day to capitalise on emerging opportunities, navigate regulatory hurdles, and stay ahead of the curve in a rapidly evolving telecommunication landscape. KWM does all of this in a way that seeks to build a sustainable and connected sector for all of us.
Best Mobile Solution
TPG Telecom • Mobile Private Network
TPG Telecom’s Mobile Private Network (MPN) is a bespoke solution catering to critical business connectivity needs.
Deployed successfully at Yancoal’s Mt Thorley Warkworth mine, it significantly enhanced on-site coverage, enabling real-time fleet management. The launch underscores its transformative impact on industries like mining, transportation and manufacturing.
Contribution to Society
Telstra Foundation • Mello
Telstra Foundation has partnered with Orygen Digital to develop Mello, a mental health app for young people that targets a common symptom of depression and anxiety – stuck thinking.
Australian Space Industry Award
Vocus • Vocus Satellite – Starlink
Vocus’ 2023-2024 LEO satellite solutions are delivering entirely new capabilities to defence, disaster relief, emergency services, national security and intelligence.
Combining satellite connectivity with drones, LTE, and bonding technology, these innovations are much more than the sum of their parts and have amplified the impact of space technology for Australians.
Diversity and Inclusion
Ventia • Ventia’s social enterprise partnership with Civik
Ventia’s social enterprise partnership with Civik aims to create jobs for communities that experience high unemployment. The partnership trains and employs individuals – in particular, First Nations people and former refugees – providing them with the skills and confidence to pursue careers in construction, engineering and telecommunications.
Best Digital Platform
NEXTDC • AXON
AXON is NEXTDC’s inhouse-built NaaS data centre and ecosystem interconnectivity platform. It is a software-defined network designed to reduce complexity and cost of interconnected hybridised multi-cloud digital architecture. Extending to all NEXTDC DCs, customers self-provision connectivity services at bandwidth and duration required only paying for what they use.